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In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “My Brilliant Friend,” the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet.

A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.

The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.

The book has sold more than 750,000 copies since July 15, his publisher said.

There are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only two by U.K. authors.

Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.

Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel follows a journalist with an elusive history and a persistent wanderlust.

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.

In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.

The protagonist of Madison Newbound’s debut novel, “Misrecognition,” returns to her hometown after a breakup with her power-imbalanced polycule.